Medlen Carroll Quotes & Sayings

No dance has ever turned out the way I thought it would, because I trust enough that I can start something with some ideas and then it takes itself somewhere. — Mark Morris

You're too much, Easton." "I am." He nods solemnly. "It's why I sleep around. Because no one girl can handle all of me. — Erin Watt

Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis. — Jane Fonda

He wanted to laugh; the vision of her pounding that wee boy in a fury of berserk rage, hair flying in the wind and a look of blood in her eye, was one he would treasure. — Diana Gabaldon

The commonsense rules of the "real world" are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions. — Tim Ferriss

At the fishmonger, choose fish with bright scales and clear eyes. — Tom Douglas

Pride is at the bottom of a great many errors and corruptions, and even of many evil practices, which have a great show and appearance of humility. — Matthew Henry

Read non-fiction. History, biology, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology. Get a bodyguard and do fieldwork. Find your inner fish. Don't publish too soon. Not before you have read Thomas Mann in any case. Learn by copying, sentence by sentence some of the masters. Copy Coetzee's or Sebald's sentences and see what happens to your story. Consider creative non-fiction if you want to stay in South Africa. It might be the way to go. Never neglect back and hamstring exercises, otherwise you won't be able to write your novel. One needs one's buttocks to think. — Marlene Van Niekerk